{"id":686910,"date":"2026-05-22T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:44:09","slug":"giants-to-select-victor-bericoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/686910\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants To Select Victor Bericoto"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants will select the contract of outfielder Victor Bericoto<\/a> from Triple-A Sacramento today, as first reported<\/a> by journalist Manolo Hern\u00e1ndez Douen. San Francisco already has an open 40-man spot. Corresponding moves aren\u2019t yet clear, but Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle suggests<\/a> that Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> could need to miss a few more games or perhaps even head to the injured list. He\u2019s been day-to-day with a back issue recently.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first call to the majors for the 24-year-old Bericoto. He\u2019s generally not considered to be among the organization\u2019s top 30 prospects, but he\u2019s enjoying a nice start to his season with the River Cats. In 186 plate appearances, the righty-swinging outfielder has slashed .299\/.355\/.449 with six homers. He\u2019s walked at a slightly below-average 8.1% clip, but his current 18.8% strikeout rate would be a career-low mark over a full season.<\/p>\n

Bericoto has played all three outfield spots and first base in his professional career. He\u2019s spent the bulk of his time in right field and at first base, however, and hasn\u2019t appeared in center field since 2024, when he logged only six games there. In January 2025, FanGraphs\u2019 Eric Longenhagen wrote<\/a> that Bericoto has plus power but contact skills that were \u201ctoward the very bottom of the acceptable range.\u201d He\u2019s made some modest gains in that regard. His 73.5% overall contact rate is still below the major league average (76.8%), but he\u2019s connected on 85.5% of the swings he takes on pitches within the zone, which is right in line with MLB average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants will select the contract of outfielder Victor Bericoto from Triple-A Sacramento today, as first reported by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,47682,462,82,251589],"class_list":["post-686910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-victor-bericoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}